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Understand

Bald Mountain ski area as seen from Ketchum Idaho

Get in

By Air

The nearest airport to Sun Valley is Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey, [5] served by Horizon Air and SkyWest Airlines. It is reachable from the gateway sites ofBoise (ID), Seattle (WA), Los Angeles (CA), Oakland (CA) and Salt Lake City (UT). These cities are served by most major airlines and are met by Sun Valley’s two connecting carriers. Horizon Air now offers daily direct, nonstop flights between Sun Valley and Los Angeles, Oakland and Seattle.

By Car

Sun Valley is located adjacent to the town of Ketchum on Idaho State Route 75.

Get around

KART. operates a free, year round transportation busing system with fixed route service in and around the cities of Sun Valley & Ketchum.

Walk and bike. Sun Valley is a walking village. Vehicles park next to the Sun Valley Lodge. Everything in Ketchum is accessible by walking as well. There is a walking/bike path between the two cities, about 1 mile. Bicycle rentals abound.

See

The Community Library. in Ketchum is one of the only privately owned and operated libraries in the country.

World Class Ice Skating Performances, Sun Valley Ice Rink.

Sun Valley Serenade (1941 film). The film is shown several times a day at the Sun Valley Opera House. Scenes were shot at Sun Valley in March 1941.

The world's first chairlifts. installed on Proctor and Dollar Mountains in the fall of 1936. The chairlift design was adapted from banana loading equipment used on fruit ships in the tropics. The single-seat chairlifts were developed at the Union Pacific headquarters in Omaha in the summer of 1936. The chairlift went on to replace the primitive rope tow and other technologies used at ski areas at the time.

Wagon Days, Ketchum. First week in September. Wagon Days spans four days of Old West entertainment with street theater, dances, live music, food, antique shows, arts and craft fairs, and the highlight: the Big Hitch parade, the longest non-motorized parade in the Northwest. with more than a hundred museum-quality buggies, carriages, tacks, carts, buckboards, and wagons of every variety in existence today-- featuring the giant ore wagons pulled by a sixteen-draft mule team.

Ore Wagon Museum, 900 3rd Ave N; Ketchum. Free.

Sun Valley Arts and Crafts Fair (August 12 through 14), Sun Valley.

Sun Valley Music Festival. nationally known classical and jazz musicians in various locations, many outdoors. Fridays through Tuesdays from August 2 through 23, Elkhorn Music Festival includes 14 free orchestral repertory concerts, all outdoors at Elkhorn Plaza, starting at 6:30. August- Northern Rockies Folk Festival presents regional folk and western bands in Hailey city park.Free.

Do

Skiing. Magnificant skiing! Baldy's 13 chairlifts, including high-speed quads, have a capacity of over 23,000 skiers per hour. With an average of 3500 skiers per day (& less than 6000 skiers per day during peak periods), Sun Valley has kept the lift lines to a minimum, a rarity among major resorts.

Fishing. Idaho in general is a mecca for fly-fishing.

Hiking.

River Rafting. Idaho is the Whitewater State. A number of river rafting companies offer 1 to 5 day trips on the Salmon River of No Return just north of Sun Valley

Ice Skating. at the Sun Valley Ice Rink or free at Atkinson Park in Ketchum.

Get out

North on HWY 93, will take you over Galena Summit and into the beautiful town of Stanley Idaho. From there, HWY 21 leads to Boise, or HWY 93 continues on to Challis and Salmon Idaho, then into Montana.

South on HWY 93 leads to the Sun Valley airport and Hailey Idaho, 11 miles from Sun Valley, then onwards to Twin Falls or Boise.